About us

DSL is a U.K. based designer, manufacturer and distributor of embedded computing solutions, deriving mutual success through partnership and co-operation, providing the right solution, at the right time and the right price – without bias.

Our embedded/industrial computing solutions exceed expectations of functionality, reliability and longevity. Whether using off the shelf or bespoke product, our service and support levels are envied throughout our industry.

Quality (ISO 9001)

DSL have been an ISO 9001 accredited company since May 1995.

ISO 9001 is an independent endorsement of a company’s Quality Management System, which has promoted wider business opportunities for DSL throughout the world. Audited by BSI, customer confidence continually increases through the supply of consistent products and services.

Environmental (ISO 14001)

At DSL we take our environmental obligations and impact very seriously. Becoming accredited to the ISO 14001 standard demonstrates our commitment to uphold our obligations and our goal to reduce our impact, not just locally but globally.

Through regular reviews, DSL check that our Environmental Management System, objectives, programmes and policies meet the needs of the business and act accordingly.

Facilities / Equipment

Here at DSL, we have always invested efficiently in state of the art machinery to improve our capabilities as embedded/industrial designers.

We encourage all our customers to make use of that investment for their own testing and validation, entirely free of charge – avoiding the need to invest substantial sums themselves for onsite facilities, or the costly hire of such machinery from a rental company.

Industrial Display Monitors

Outside of a comfortable office, commercial displays are vulnerable, liquid ingress from the installed environment or simply cleaning can cause irreparable damage.

By utilising the highly ruggedised alternative, installing an Industrial Display Monitor, liquid or dust ingress is no longer of concern, nor degradation of the display due to heavy usage.

Due to their flexible mounting options (panel mount into a vertical surface, or attach to a VESA extendable arm), multiple power input options and vastly extended temperature range – the decision is obvious!

System-On-Modules

System-On-Modules & Computer-On-Modules (terms interchangeable) have been around for over 2 decades. Early formats lacked standardisation, in fact DSL produced one of the earliest true System-On-Modules, the Chameleon, back in 1991 – this was still in manufacture 15 years later!

As a result you achieve the perfect half way house between bespoke design and off the shelf product, with the advantages of both and the disadvantages of neither. Permitting faster time to market, decreased risk, lower unit costs and reduced design costs – it’s easy to see why System-On-Module based designs are so heavily favoured in today’s cost sensitive world…

The combination of DSL and our Far Eastern partners enables this full breadth of application specific modifications to be undertaken in minimal time/cost and manufactured on site – benefiting from overseas manufacturing costs.

The combination of DSL and ICOP enables this full breadth of application specific modifications to be undertaken in minimal time/cost and manufactured using ICOP’s own production facility – benefiting from overseas manufacturing costs

DSL’s remit can range from simple control circuitry, to managing and delivering entire multi-layer, multi-board projects, from inception, design, prototyping and to delivering fully assembledand tested production quantities.

Design Process

We know that DSL clients often have very demanding and challenging project objectives to meet relating to quality, cost and time. They rely on us to play a key role in meeting these goals by making the design and delivery process as smooth and predictable as possible.

With over 25 years’ experience, we have developed a proven design process which fast tracks many of the time consuming stages, while delivering ‘right first time’ results.

Production Management

DSL’s excellent service doesn’t stop once the design is complete, the majority of DSL’s clients utilise our Production Management services, delivering scalable quantities of product how you require and when you require.

From regular low quantities to tens of thousands per annum with flexible call off deliveries, DSL has the capability to manage your entire product production, with multiple stage testing, assembly and seamless obsolescence management to resolve any issues on your behalf, providing a hassle free production that you can rely upon.

Early examples include smart thermostats enabling the user to control their central heating remotely, though in the industrial sector this has signalled the arrival of Industry 4.0, heralding a new era in M2M smart manufacturing.

Local IoT

A budget-friendly way to embrace the power of IoT without an expensive outlay, employing industrial I/O conversion to get your data to local LAN, and beyond

As technology evangelists drone on about Industrie 4.0, IoT and revolutionising your entire operation via the cloud, the reality is that many smaller operations both can’t justify the cost and won’t benefit the full breadth of capability this IoT revolution can offer – but equally don’t want to be left behind.

What these companies need is a half-way house, an “Industrie 3.5”. Connecting their factory equipment directly to their internal IT network or to a local Panel PC or Industrial PC to control and/or monitor their machinery.

Remote IoT

The traditional way to embrace the power of IoT, gathering local sensor data and employing a cellular enabled gateway to connect to the cloud

IoT (a.k.a. Industrie 4.0) promises to revolutionise manufacturing across every conceivable application and industry, facilitating the control and monitoring of your entire operation via the cloud and any PC, laptop, tablet or smart phone

Unlike a Local IoT deployment, a Remote IoT application may have no local IT infrastructure, so no LAN or WiFi available to connect our IoT gateway to; or perhaps it does, but you lack permission to access that local network infrastructure.

Internet of Things (IoT)

Early examples include smart thermostats enabling the user to control their central heating remotely, though in the industrial sector this has signalled the arrival of Industry 4.0, heralding a new era in M2M smart manufacturing.

Military / Defence

DSL have developed a solid reputation working in close partnership with many specialist defence contractors across the UK, Europe and beyond.

Our work has involved us in providing both commercial off the shelf (COTS) and design solutions to meet the specific demands and rugged performance reliability required in the military and defence environments.

Rail / Transportation

The rail, commercial and public transport sectors bring specific challenges to the design and development of supporting technology systems.

As technology developments are helping to bring reliability, environmental efficiency and safety improvements to many rail and transport areas, the support of experienced and responsive embedded technology partners becomes more critical.

DSL are able to offer expertise and proven experience in providing embedded solutions for a variety of specialist Rail and Transport applications.

Power / Utilities

The Power and Utilities sectors are facing new technology challenges as they seek to find more effective ways of increasing energy provision whilst helping to increase energy efficiency, protect our environment and preserve natural resources.

DSL’s experience and technology expertise provides a range of solutions for the Power and Utilities sectors covering support for embedded and programmable automation and control, switching and distribution and monitoring applications.

Multimedia

Delivering a wider range of information and entertainment across a constantly increasing variety of delivery formats is the job of today’s fast moving Multimedia industry.

Covering applications for Gaming, Entertainment, POS/POI, Digital Signage and Multi Media DSL can provide highly skilled design and development solutions to provide the computing applications necessary to bring new multimedia systems to life – and to market.

Security / Access Control

Security in all its forms is a high priority in many aspects of our daily lives.

Personal, commercial and information security all depend on the application of sophisticated technology to ensure high levels of protection.

Throughout the many forms of security systems including surveillance, access control, tracking and IT the technology behind them depends on the thorough and expert application of reliable and effective computing systems.

Blog

DSL's weekly e-Blog has thousands of subscribers, combining new product news with reports from our Rory Dear on industry trends, through his regular column in Embedded Computing Design, globally the largest embedded trade publication.

RMA Request

Product FAQ

Whilst customers are always welcome to utilise our telephone and e-mail technical support, answers to the most common queries we deal with can be found below and may vastly expedite the resolution to what could well be a very common ‘issue’.

What is...? (Glossary)

Beyond using DSL as a supplier of such hardware/software, DSL’s client base extensively use DSL as a technical resource to resolve technical issues they have within their own project, often far further up the chain than involving any of DSL products themselves.

Alternatively utilise our support pages to learn about new emerging technologies in the embedded market.